Thursday, July 05, 2007

Something weird...

So, I've been knitting my own version of that baby sweater out of Last Minute Knitted Gifts, and I think I've screwed something up. I'm at the part where you're supposed to make the neck placket, and I think I've somehow messed up the decreases at the shoulder. For one of the sleeves, I'm getting dangerously close to the actual seed stitch section as I continue to decrease. I'm going to re-read the pattern again. I sure hope I don't have to rip away too much of my work.

In other news, I've started knitting some socks. They're toe up socks made from that blue/aqua worsted weight Dream in Colour stuff that I bought when I got the peach yarn. I'll take some pictures soon. I know worsted weight isn't usually what you use to make socks with, but it's been a nice fun and quick knit. And remember the beautiful blue, sock weight Koigu Adrienne gave me once upon a time? Well, I've started some socks with them too. I'm trying an experiment - making both socks (toe up) on a single circular needle. It's a little hairy sometimes because I've realized that the needle isn't quite long enough to do the magic loop comfortably, but other than that it's working pretty well.

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I don't know if you have the same printing of the book that I do, but mine is just RIDDLED with errors. I've knit both the wristwarmers and the man's cashmere scarf, and there are mistakes in both patterns, the pattern for the scarf was printed 100% wrong. I checked for errata BEFORE I even started the placket sweater. And of course, here they are:

http://www.purlsoho.com/_gr/our_books/childplacketsweater.pdf

I hope this fixes the problem! And that you didn't get messed up too badly!

Oh. My. Goodness. Why didn't I think of checking for errata?! Thanks so much. I thought I was going crazy there for a minute. I just assumed that I must've done something wrong. I don't mind frogging my work as long as I know I can fix it. Whew! You really saved me there, Adrienne!